@@Dankjo There where lost of cool chords in Petrucci and DT's music. Not that there aren't anymore, but it's really different. Their earlier work was more melodic to me as well.
I dont think this particular solo is a good representation of that -- he was kind of just noodling around pentatonic licks. Not something a shredder would do, but not very melodic either.
Man this was a totally different John Petrucci. I still love John Petrucci but I sometimes wish he comes back to more of his fusion based stuff :) so many memories!
I always wondered why he dropped Ibanez for Music Man guitars. His Picasso Ibanez has to be among the coolest looking guitars I've seen in ages. I'll bet the action is buttery-smooth on that axe.
I'm not trying to bash Ibanez because I haven't really played them, but once you play Music Man guitars, there is nothing else better. Their necks are a different kind of feel, and if you either like it or hate it.
I heard music man guitars are really good, but still in relation to Petrucci's tone and style, I prefer the Ibanez era.. or maybe if he didn't build that huge muscle mass, his playing style would still be the same as before.. just my opinion..
Music man sucks. You're out of your mind. I wouldn't pay more than 700 bucks for any of their garbage. Look at all the players who use them now: EVH, petrucci, Vinnie Moore... They all sound mediocre compared to the superheroes they sounded like with their original axes. And the Ibanez were always the best. Vai, skolnick, petrucci, Moore, Satch, Paul Gilbert??? Do I really have to go on???
Dude, this video lesson taught me so much guitar. What is particularly cool about it is the fact that Petrucci was really trying to teach cool and practical things about guitar playing and not just showing off how hard his solos were and how well he could play them. It is like watching a lesson from a master, who brings himself to other people's level in order to truly teach something.
John Petrucci Rock Discipline. I had this in VHS when it came out. Those warm up exercises are brilliant and this Example 16 was my favourite part of the set. Brings back so much good memories. The tone and this signature guitar are still epic 😊
Fuck yeah! I'd never realised that, but yes, Marco Sfogli has much of early Petrucci bottled and even improved, Sfogli is an incredible lyrical and soulful player and of course, technique to the moon and back.
David Lane I call it "The Jordan Rudess Effect." He has progressively added more gain and his playing has become my circus-like and clownish since SFaM. I don't think it's just a coincidence.
This takes me back. Back before John sold guitars, amps, pedals, picks, stays at a private mansion. Back when he quietly hid in the back of a guitar world magazine filled to the brim with grunge crap. Love, 15 year old me
Its been many many years since i first listened to JP and dream theater..my taste in music has constantly changed morphed and evolved..i have heard and seen brilliant musicians and guitarists play...many have become my all time favorite new artists!! But there is still and never will be a better or a more amazing player than JP for me
Punished Venom Snake there are plenty of players better the JP jason Becker,yngwie,Paul Gilbert,bucket head,Steve via,joe satriani,Jason Richardson,these players are more innovative creative and just better st guitar than JP,theirs obviously more but it’s mostly a personal preference
Ahh!! I remember how I practiced to this DVD with my old acoustic guitar back in 2003. It completely changed the way I played. Thank you John Petrucci!
Have you noticed most of the great players..Gilbert, Vai, Petrucci all have giant fingers/hands perfect for the guitar. It helps soooo much. I'm stuck with mini sausages for fingers. The struggle is real :'(
deltafit I agree with others it is more a mind over matter thing. The size of your hands is a very small portion of playing. It only matters with things like figuring out what radius feel more comfortable to you and so forth. For example I have short fingers for my size. This makes it easier for me to play 11 to 14 radius necks because they are almost flat and I don't have to reach over a radius to grab a note. Ibanez wizard necks are awesome to me. I got a fender, peavy, dean and schecter. The one I am more comfortable playing is the schecter simply because the radius is just right on it. Don't worry you'll get it and those fingers will be flying over the fingerboard soon enough. Just practice practice practice. Good luck dude.
for all those saying that john petrucci has become a "SHREDDER" or isn't "Melodic" anymore... i just have three words for you... "THE SHATTERED FORTREES"... one of his best solos EVER!!!
@TheSchrism John Petrucci is probably one of the best, if not the best, guitarplayer when it comes to his technique. It's absolutely amazing how well he controls his guitar. He's definitely one of my favorites.
As a response to porpoisefathom (since I can't respond to him because CZcams sucks donkey balls now), you have no clue what you're talking about. Petrucci uses a number of linear patterns, but is far from up and down. I mean, just listen to the Under a Glass Moon solo. lots of switching between modes in very subtle and clever ways, not to mention some chromatics, and it's very anti-linear. As for Govan, I'm absolutely stunned. There so many examples of him ending on places other than the tonic I don't even know where to begin. He also frequently uses odder patterns and skips degrees within the patterns (and when I mean frequently, I mean A LOT) so to say that he is linear just blows my mind. Govan is one of the least generic and least linear guitar players in HISTORY. Porpoisefathom is a really good example of unfathomable stupidity.
This was after Images and Words(which had Under A Glass Moon on it) around 94 when Awake come out so really, he already had the lick written for lets say, 2 years before he played that solo there. Just some trivia for ya ;) I could be wrong with the exact dates but for the main part, this Instructional Video was recorded after he had recorded Under A Glass Moon.
Ah yes they are, it was his Dimarzio Steve's Special Pickups that gave the juicy tone of his Ibanez guitars. He uses Illuminators now :/ which are okay but Steve's Special Pickups were way better.
@@sanjivharikumar I thought it was the tone zone with the humbuckers from hell? Can someone please clarify this so I can buy the pickups! I love his 90's tone!
Rock Discipline was a very helpful DVD for me. It's kind of antithetical because he doesn't explain scales or gets too involved in theory, he simply goes over right hand and left hand technique and provides you with knowledge of how to improve your "chops" but not necessarily how to play melodic guitar solos.
When he was little, all the bullies at school I insulted, because it was clumsy, overweight, and could be inattentive in class, then she decided not to leave the house more, and so he took a guitar to pass the time, and focused only about her, 24 hours a day, and so was born Petrucci
Got old. Stopped playing ibanez. No longer inspired. From Dream and Day to Metropolis he was at his best. All ibanez. It's been downhill ever since. I haven't bought an album since the one with "as I am." Can't even remember the name of album smh. Losing Moore was a killer. Petrucci will always be awesome but like Yngwie, he well past prime and just fooling around now. Not that great any longer
I agree. The Petrucci's Musicman guitars are amazing, especially the bluish one that shines about fifty different colors, but I like the Ibanez sound alot better.
Karl Kanner I read that one all the time :D Funny enough that in almost every case the guitar player in question actually played that song somewhere being recorded ;)
Every time I see the Ibanez JPM, I regret not buying one when I was a young guitar player. I played one in my local mall music store in 1997 and the sticker on it was $899! Knowing how generous the owner was, especially with younger players, I could've probably got it for ~750. Now, they sell for $2500 easily. And they're not easy to come by To all you new guitar players, guitars are an amazing investment. Good guitars only go up in value over time if they are taken care of properly. My brother has probably owned 50 guitars over the last 25 years, with 20 or so in his collection at any given time, and he has yet to lose money on any he has sold. He even had a used Telecaster that he "didn't like the feel of", and still made money when he sold his two weeks after he bought it
It's really interesting that, while I like this tone way more than his current one, his early Music Man tone, like the one on his solo album, isn't that different, and it's still awesome. His current (distorted) tone is muddy and has too much chorus.
Kevin Neace you're completely right. His early music man jp6 models had the steve's special and air Norton, the same pickups as his ibanez. The early jp6 models don't sound very different from the ibanez for that reason
This is so cool. He’s not a pointless shredder, but so melodic. 🎸
Was….he turned into a robot…
@@Dankjo There where lost of cool chords in Petrucci and DT's music. Not that there aren't anymore, but it's really different. Their earlier work was more melodic to me as well.
@@DankjoHe’s still melodic fym lmao
I dont think this particular solo is a good representation of that -- he was kind of just noodling around pentatonic licks. Not something a shredder would do, but not very melodic either.
No one is a pointless shredder.
Man this was a totally different John Petrucci. I still love John Petrucci but I sometimes wish he comes back to more of his fusion based stuff :) so many memories!
I always wondered why he dropped Ibanez for Music Man guitars. His Picasso Ibanez has to be among the coolest looking guitars I've seen in ages. I'll bet the action is buttery-smooth on that axe.
I'm not trying to bash Ibanez because I haven't really played them, but once you play Music Man guitars, there is nothing else better. Their necks are a different kind of feel, and if you either like it or hate it.
I'm not a huge fan of either, really haha. I'm a Fender guy :P
I heard music man guitars are really good, but still in relation to Petrucci's tone and style, I prefer the Ibanez era.. or maybe if he didn't build that huge muscle mass, his playing style would still be the same as before.. just my opinion..
Music man sucks. You're out of your mind. I wouldn't pay more than 700 bucks for any of their garbage. Look at all the players who use them now: EVH, petrucci, Vinnie Moore... They all sound mediocre compared to the superheroes they sounded like with their original axes. And the Ibanez were always the best. Vai, skolnick, petrucci, Moore, Satch, Paul Gilbert??? Do I really have to go on???
6672rock
He found on the music man a more comfortable model for him
Dude, this video lesson taught me so much guitar. What is particularly cool about it is the fact that Petrucci was really trying to teach cool and practical things about guitar playing and not just showing off how hard his solos were and how well he could play them. It is like watching a lesson from a master, who brings himself to other people's level in order to truly teach something.
his tone is sooo amazing here
this is when he had awesome tone.
agreed! :)
+isaac thrash true
i like this sound because it reminds me of playing sonic ahaha and it's not too heavy sounding, it's clear and has catchy 90's tunes :)
isaac thrash
He has
...and taste
Love that Petrucci's Ibanez sound!!! Nowadays Music Man's is nothing to compare. Miss you old Dream Theater :(
And we miss Mike Portnoy too
@@solarpower26 Sup, heard the news?
John Petrucci Rock Discipline. I had this in VHS when it came out. Those warm up exercises are brilliant and this Example 16 was my favourite part of the set.
Brings back so much good memories. The tone and this signature guitar are still epic 😊
His old style is soo amazing...
God this harmony, GREAT!
One of the sweetest licks I've ever heard at 1:35, like for real.
2:31 Ooooo that's baby making music right there...
I can listen to that tone all day... bring back the old tone, master Petrucci... Marco Sfogli has your old tone...
But not his playing :'v
weeellllllll......
Fuck yeah! I'd never realised that, but yes, Marco Sfogli has much of early Petrucci bottled and even improved, Sfogli is an incredible lyrical and soulful player and of course, technique to the moon and back.
0:50 That Sweet Child O' Mine lick
His tone was 100x better back then..
also he had soul..I think he mixed dominant lydian mode a lot more which made things interesting
that ibanez +triaxis and 2:90 rig-best tone ever
VinnieVic Jones Couldn't agree more! And I think he was generally a better player.
David Lane
I call it "The Jordan Rudess Effect."
He has progressively added more gain and his playing has become my circus-like and clownish since SFaM. I don't think it's just a coincidence.
Yes that's true he was way better back then!!!
This takes me back. Back before John sold guitars, amps, pedals, picks, stays at a private mansion. Back when he quietly hid in the back of a guitar world magazine filled to the brim with grunge crap.
Love,
15 year old me
deasnutz4ever it was a different world
🤣🤣🤣 your comment was spot on and took me back to being a kid in the mid-ninetees.
I save this video 14 years ago and I’ve watched it probably 100 times! Never gets old ❤️
Love this “dark fusion” sound
I've spent probably 30 minutes rewinding the lick from 1:03 - 1:06 , it's so good !
is that a fusion style ?
Sad to be you then if it took you 30 mins xd
@@KasSo89 sad of you to reply to a 2 year old comment just to say that.
@@KasSo89 what an asshole
@@wahyudisyaputra3947 Yeah, it sounds like something Frank Gambale might play. Petrucci has cited him as influence, so that's not a surprise.
That riffage in the beginning is SOO GOOD
Its been many many years since i first listened to JP and dream theater..my taste in music has constantly changed morphed and evolved..i have heard and seen brilliant musicians and guitarists play...many have become my all time favorite new artists!! But there is still and never will be a better or a more amazing player than JP for me
YES
Punished Venom Snake there are plenty of players better the JP jason Becker,yngwie,Paul Gilbert,bucket head,Steve via,joe satriani,Jason Richardson,these players are more innovative creative and just better st guitar than JP,theirs obviously more but it’s mostly a personal preference
I would not rate Yngwie above JP
@@counterfit5 you’d be right not to
@@lamborgatti-4783- If you can’t spell “there’s”, maybe you should refrain from posting anything. Just a thought.
I wish there was a video that went all day for that first one. So melodic and it's in 5/4 which makes it even better
my god, i started to love Petrucci with this song... i cant even explain how this guy changed my point of view of music in my life... just a genius!
its not about the speed and stuff, its how nice and melodic his solos sound what makes him such a genius.
love that guitar !
Petrucci in Ibanez was way better than the present petrucci in Musicman. Ibanez petrucci was very Epic
Yes - I&W and Awake era, the best playing Petrucci ever put out! So much more tasteful!
these songs really need to be included on an album, they are sooo good!!! :D
Nice to see him smile at the beggining, that just proves how much he loves and aprecciates music! \m/
Seriously, his tone is almost too perfect! ITS INSANE!!
Ahh!! I remember how I practiced to this DVD with my old acoustic guitar back in 2003. It completely changed the way I played. Thank you John Petrucci!
This is the Petrucci I loved.
His phrasing seems more mature here somehow?
@@giorgosk2884 rlly doesnt. Also vai has so bad bote choice. His modies suck ass
Early Petrucci Is the Best of all of them.
Best tone EVER...!!!!!!!!!!!!
If DT had used this , it would have been a legendary song..
+alkis00skdo well most DT songs from this era are legendary anyways
+Armunzen agreed :3
who is DT?
Sashin Gopaul wtf
It could either be Dream Theater or Devin Townsend
He looks so happy in the beginning. :)
This reminds me of the Images and Words era... Fantastic!
I love to see John smiling
Milky chocolate tone with melodic cool licks master petrucci
this is the best guitar JP ever played!
when Petrucci plays, he just makes every guitar look small no matter how many frets it has...God bless him :)
Incredible! This is one of the best impros I've ever heard.
One of the coolest videos on youTube.
What a genius, absolute guitar God.
Such a badass guitarist. I love how the tags say ernie ball music man and yet this was back when he still was with Ibanez
Have you noticed most of the great players..Gilbert, Vai, Petrucci all have giant fingers/hands perfect for the guitar. It helps soooo much. I'm stuck with mini sausages for fingers. The struggle is real :'(
deltafit You must know a fat guy with chubby fingers called Yngwie Malmsteen.
deltafit Or Michael Romeo
deltafit What about Shawn Lane? He had average hands, but despite this he could outplay anybody. The struggle is more in your mind than in your hands.
deltafit I agree with others it is more a mind over matter thing. The size of your hands is a very small portion of playing. It only matters with things like figuring out what radius feel more comfortable to you and so forth.
For example I have short fingers for my size. This makes it easier for me to play 11 to 14 radius necks because they are almost flat and I don't have to reach over a radius to grab a note. Ibanez wizard necks are awesome to me. I got a fender, peavy, dean and schecter. The one I am more comfortable playing is the schecter simply because the radius is just right on it.
Don't worry you'll get it and those fingers will be flying over the fingerboard soon enough. Just practice practice practice. Good luck dude.
Juanchi Nudel I think he goes by "God" these days. A god with tiny carrot fingers, but still.
this is when petrucci was awesome i loved his ibanez tone the best
Beautiful! Unbelievable how beautiful this sounds....
This tone was amazing one ❤️
This is the real Petrucci! The gifted one who still played with soul and feeling. Now He's just a cold shred machine.....
for all those saying that john petrucci has become a "SHREDDER" or isn't "Melodic" anymore... i just have three words for you... "THE SHATTERED FORTREES"... one of his best solos EVER!!!
dammit this is soooo good dream theater shouldve taken this concept and made a song with it
So fluid.. He's great..
amazing how his playing doesn't sound dated at all
John is the best metal guitarist in all levels period.!
what a phrasing. incredible. long life to the king JP
I love this song. Such a pity it never appeared on a real CD.
I so love him when he was using ibanez JPM signature the sound was fucking craziest
this is still one of my fave videos
@TheSchrism
John Petrucci is probably one of the best, if not the best, guitarplayer when it comes to his technique. It's absolutely amazing how well he controls his guitar. He's definitely one of my favorites.
wish he'd take some of this and put it in the new solo album. i'd also love to hear gemini recorded properly
As a response to porpoisefathom (since I can't respond to him because CZcams sucks donkey balls now), you have no clue what you're talking about. Petrucci uses a number of linear patterns, but is far from up and down. I mean, just listen to the Under a Glass Moon solo. lots of switching between modes in very subtle and clever ways, not to mention some chromatics, and it's very anti-linear.
As for Govan, I'm absolutely stunned. There so many examples of him ending on places other than the tonic I don't even know where to begin. He also frequently uses odder patterns and skips degrees within the patterns (and when I mean frequently, I mean A LOT) so to say that he is linear just blows my mind. Govan is one of the least generic and least linear guitar players in HISTORY.
Porpoisefathom is a really good example of unfathomable stupidity.
Love his tone here ! 🖤🎶🖤
😮awezm
Is this an actual song or just improvisation? Sounds awesome!
This was after Images and Words(which had Under A Glass Moon on it) around 94 when Awake come out so really, he already had the lick written for lets say, 2 years before he played that solo there. Just some trivia for ya ;) I could be wrong with the exact dates but for the main part, this Instructional Video was recorded after he had recorded Under A Glass Moon.
I wish he still used this guitar!!!
Awesome!
those Dimarzio pickups sounds great
Ah yes they are, it was his Dimarzio Steve's Special Pickups that gave the juicy tone of his Ibanez guitars. He uses Illuminators now :/ which are okay but Steve's Special Pickups were way better.
@@sanjivharikumar I thought it was the tone zone with the humbuckers from hell? Can someone please clarify this so I can buy the pickups! I love his 90's tone!
Rock Discipline was a very helpful DVD for me. It's kind of antithetical because he doesn't explain scales or gets too involved in theory, he simply goes over right hand and left hand technique and provides you with knowledge of how to improve your "chops" but not necessarily how to play melodic guitar solos.
i know it always gives me shivers
i love how the sound trails off when he flicks into the next pickup position. it works on almost any guitar and sounds cool
The way he plays here will always be better than blurring out notes at high speeds. That is-if that is all someone does.
When he was little, all the bullies at school I insulted, because it was clumsy, overweight, and could be inattentive in class, then she decided not to leave the house more, and so he took a guitar to pass the time, and focused only about her, 24 hours a day, and so was born Petrucci
i love this track
it's so 90s, i love it.
Why doesnt he play like that today? Nowadays he sounds so boring =( 90s I like much more 90s Petrucci.
Got old. Stopped playing ibanez. No longer inspired. From Dream and Day to Metropolis he was at his best. All ibanez. It's been downhill ever since. I haven't bought an album since the one with "as I am." Can't even remember the name of album smh. Losing Moore was a killer. Petrucci will always be awesome but like Yngwie, he well past prime and just fooling around now. Not that great any longer
OmniscientVirtuosity another moron who will never be 1/100th of a player that Petrucci is
Just shut up and enjoy,John is still amazing and will be amazing forever....John is evolving his music day by day which is awesome..
I agree. The Petrucci's Musicman guitars are amazing, especially the bluish one that shines about fifty different colors, but I like the Ibanez sound alot better.
That tone is too good.
John Petrucci, You are the man! Happy Birthday!
What the title of backing track?
I wish I would find a shirt with a print like on John's guitar : /
It's a Picasso style design so u might find something along those lines. It's so early 90s looking it reminds me of my youth.
John Petrucci at his best!
He's so awesome
Reminds me of Andy timmons
MusicAttack I LOVE Andy Timmons! Such great tone and feel! One of my faves!
...but can he play smoke on the water?
G3 LIVE IN TOKYO
ijlajdadajkd xDD , that's for noobs :v
Karl Kanner I read that one all the time :D Funny enough that in almost every case the guitar player in question actually played that song somewhere being recorded ;)
Smoke on the water is so hard even for Petrucci
He still struggles with the main intro for We will rock you.
I’ll never stop visiting you !!
My first guitar icon and still the best
John Petrucci please go back to Ibanez guitars.
Why would he? He has a whole line of signature guitars over with Music Man.
Because his Ibanez tone from Images is his best.
For your ears
And he choose this model because he found more comfortable for him
I can do it.
Hold my beer
Every time I see the Ibanez JPM, I regret not buying one when I was a young guitar player. I played one in my local mall music store in 1997 and the sticker on it was $899! Knowing how generous the owner was, especially with younger players, I could've probably got it for ~750. Now, they sell for $2500 easily. And they're not easy to come by
To all you new guitar players, guitars are an amazing investment. Good guitars only go up in value over time if they are taken care of properly. My brother has probably owned 50 guitars over the last 25 years, with 20 or so in his collection at any given time, and he has yet to lose money on any he has sold. He even had a used Telecaster that he "didn't like the feel of", and still made money when he sold his two weeks after he bought it
Wow... amazing.
Yngwie made 96 accounts to hit thumbs down. Probably is setting up another at the moment.
Weston Trefry yngvie has been known to let his ego talk for him
Its really unecessary to talk shit about a guitarist in another guitarist's video. Just enjoy Petrucci playing. No need to bring anyone down
This comments 5 years old and made me crack up
It's really interesting that, while I like this tone way more than his current one, his early Music Man tone, like the one on his solo album, isn't that different, and it's still awesome. His current (distorted) tone is muddy and has too much chorus.
Kevin Neace you're completely right. His early music man jp6 models had the steve's special and air Norton, the same pickups as his ibanez. The early jp6 models don't sound very different from the ibanez for that reason
I wish I could ever be this fantastic...
Amazing!!!!😍😍
ahh the good old days when petrucci used an ibanez not that ernie ball bullshit.
shuck yourself corn man
Victor Dominguez those Ernie Ball guitars are ugly as fuck
Marino Oliveira don't cry 😂
jumpfart666
Ibanez and music man are the best brands ever
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DJENT??????????
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#BoredAF
Lol
Haha I know where you come from. He doesn't djent really.
stop
Excellent Playing and Tone 👍🏻💥🎸👍🏻💥🎸👍🏻💥🎸💯
John Petrucci ... my guitar hero!